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θώραξ

thorax · ὁ

corslet, jerkin, coat of mail, scale armour

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Where it lives

  • On the Art of Horsemanship 7 · 10.07/10k
  • 1 Thessalonians 1 · 6.88/10k
  • De Respiratione 3 · 4.94/10k
  • Ephesians 1 · 4.15/10k
  • Iliad 35 · 3.14/10k
  • Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
  • Revelation 2 · 2.02/10k
  • Memorabilia 7 · 1.96/10k
  • Cyropaedia 14 · 1.78/10k
  • Machabaeorum I 3 · 1.72/10k
  • Anabasis 9 · 1.6/10k
  • De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

corslet, jerkin

corslet, θ. χάλκεος Il. 23.560; παναίολος 11.374; πολυδαίδαλος 4.136, cf. 11.19, etc.; δεκάμνουν θώρηκος κύτος Ar. Pax 1224; ἔξαιρε παῖ θώρακα . . τὸν χοᾶ Id. Ach. 1133; θ. … γυάλοισιν ἀρηρώς Il. 15.529 (γύαλα expld. as front- and back-piece fastened with περόναι, Paus. 10.26.5); θώρηκος γύαλον Il. 5.99; ὅθι διπλόος ἤντετο θ. 4.133; κατὰ ζώνην θώρηκος ἔνερθε 11.234; linen jerkin (not worn by Homeric Greeks acc. to Sch. Il. 2.529, but cf. λινοθώρηξ), θόρρακες νέω λίνω Alc. l.c., cf. Hdt. 2.182, 3

2 coat of mail, scale armour

coat of mail, scale armour, θ. χρύσεος λεπιδωτός Hdt. 9.22, cf. 74; φολιδωτός Posidipp. 26.7, cf. Paus. 1.21.6; of chain mail, v. ἁλυσιδωτός.

b slough

slough of a serpent, καθάπερ ὄφις παλαιὸν ἀποδύεται θ. Porph. Chr. 88.

II part covered by the θώραξ I, trunk, chest, thorax

part covered by the θώραξ I, trunk, Hp. de Arte 10, E. HF 1095, Arist. HA 493a5; κεφαλῆς καὶ θώρακος καὶ τῆς κάτω κοιλίας Id. Pr. 962a34; sts. taken as extending below the midriff, Pl. Ti. 69e; ἀπʼ αὐχένος μέχρι αἰδοίων Arist. HA 491a30, cf. PA 686b5, ἐν τῷ κάτω θώρακος χωρίῳ, of the abdominal cavity, Gal. 16.448; but also of the chest, thorax, Arist. HA 493a17:—there is a play on signfs. I and II in Ar. V. 1194 sq.

b thorax

thorax of crustaceans, Arist. HA 601a13, al.

2 bandage for the chest

bandage for the chest, Heliod. ap. Orib. 48.48 tit., Sor. Fasc. 33, cf. Gal. 18(1).817.

III

= θωράκιον II, Hdt. 1.181, D.C. 74.10.

In the wild

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. θώραξ (scan p. 616; entry #2653).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θώραξ (scan p. 464; entry #3279).

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